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Baby Cured of HIV for the First Time, Researchers Say

Success With Aggressive Drug Regimen Could Spur Wider Use of Such Treatment

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Ron Winslow

Updated March 3, 2013 4:33 p.m. ET

A Mississippi baby born with the AIDS virus appears to have been cured after being treated with an aggressive regimen of drugs just after her birth 2½ years ago, an unusual case that could trigger changes in care for hundreds of thousands of babies born globally each year with HIV.

The findings, reported Sunday by researchers, mark only the second documented case of a patient being cured of infection with the human immune-deficiency...

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